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A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University

by Abbot Francis Ellingwood

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Author: Abbot Francis Ellingwood

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A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University. Professor Royce's Libel. please visit www.valdebooks.com for a full list of titles --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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...or unconscious. In an able editorial article on "Lawand Theft, " published in the New York "Nation" of Feb. 12, 1891, it isforcibly said: "Authors or writers who do this [borrowing other men'sideas] a good deal, undoubtedly incur discredit by it with theirfellows and the general public. It greatly damages a writer's fame tobe rightfully accused of want of originality, or of imitation, or ofgetting materials at second hand. But no one has ever proposed topunish or restrain this sort of misappropriation by law. No one hasever contended for the infliction on the purloiners of other men'sideas of any penalty but ridicule or disgrace. " Whoever _wrongfully_accuses an author of plagiarism, then, holds him up _undeservedly_ to"discredit, ridicule, or disgrace, " and "slanders his title" to theproduct of his own brain. This is contrary to the law. Yet this isprecisely what Dr. Royce has done in accusing me _falsely_, and as a_"certain" matter of fact_, of borrowing my theory of universals...

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